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Miraj Ahmed
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 13
Bio: Miraj Ahmed is a practising painter and architect. He has taught at the AA since 2000 and is a Design Fellow at the University of Cambridge and Associate Lecturer at Camberwell College of Art.
Memo Akten
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Memo Akten is a visual artist, director, musician and engineer. In 2007 he founded the Mega Super Awesome Visuals Company – a network of artists, designers, musicians, engineers, hackers and tinkerers. He has collaborated on a music video for Depeche Mode and has worked with brands such as Apple, Google, Rolls-Royce, Samsung and Vodafone.
Pedro Ignacio Alonso
Unit/Programme:History & Critical Thinking (HCT), Visiting School
Bio: Pedro Ignacio Alonso studied architecture at the Catholic University in Chile and completed his PhD at the  AA on the modernist conceptualisation of architecture as a work of assemblage. He has taught at the AA since 2005, currently as visiting tutor at the AA HTS Masters Programme, and is professor of architecture at the Universidad Católica de Chile, in Santiago. Recent publications include A panel’s tale: KPD and the Politics of Assemblage (AA Files 59, London 2009); Acronym (AA Files 57, London 2008); and Post-Digital (MArq 04, Santiago 2008). In 2008 he received a RIBA Research Trust Award, and more recently he has been awarded with a Fellowship as Visiting Scholar at the Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA) in Montreal (2010–11).
Medine Altiok
Unit/Programme:Visiting School
Bio: Medine Altiok, a German-Turkish architect, graduated from the AA in 2000. She is founder of MOCA Office for Culture and Architecture based in Zurich and initiator of a series of research projects dealing with cultural, political and economic changes in the Mediterranean. She has been teaching at ETH Zurich since 2005 with Prof. Momoyo Kaijima (Atelier Bow Wow, Tokyo) and Prof. Felix Claus (Claus en Kaan, Amsterdam). Together with Stephanie Tunka, she is programme director of the AA Visiting School Mittelmeerland series. See www.medinealtiok.com and www.mittelmeerland.org
Jorge Rodriguez Alvarez
Unit/Programme:Sustainable Environmental Design (SED)
Bio: Jorge Rodríguez Álvarez graduated from the architectural school of A Coruña, Spain where he is currently researching on sustainable urban design. He was awarded an MA in Building Conservation and Urban Regeneration from the University of Santiago and completed the MSc in Sustainable Environmental Design at the AA with Distinction in 2008. In 2009 he co-founded SAAI, an international environmental consultancy with projects in Europe, Asia and America.
Nuria Alvarez Lombardero
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 8, Visiting School
Bio: Nuria Alvarez Lombardero studied architecture and urbanism at ETSA Madrid and the AA. She has worked for Machado & Silvetti Associates in Boston and for Neutra Magazine on the editorial board. Since 2003 she has co-directed the London Seville-based office Canales & Lombardero. She has previously taught at the University of Cambridge and TEC Monterrey and lectured on urbanism at the University of Seville. After working as a researcher at Harvard University, the University of Cambridge and the AA, she finished her PhD on the dissolution of boundaries traced by modern urban planning.
Alisa Andrasek
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Alisa Andrasek is a director of BIOTHING and an experimental practitioner of architecture and computation. She graduated from the University of Zagreb, and holds a Masters in Advanced Architectural Design from Columbia University, where she has also taught, as well as at Pratt, UPENN, RMIT Melbourne and RPI. Andrasek won the Metropolis Next Generation Award in 2005 and received the FEIDAD Design Merit Award in 2004. Recent exhibitions include Scripted by Purpose, Philadelphia 2007; Seroussi pavilion and Ars Mathematica, both Paris 2007; the 2003 Prague Biennale; Architectural Biennial Beijing 2004/06/08; and the New Museum of Contemporary Art, NY, 2005. She curated the East Coast section of the Emergent Talent Emergent Technologies exhibition for the 2006 and 2008 Beijing Biennial.
Pierandrea Angius
Unit/Programme:Design Research Laboratory (DRL)
Bio: Pierandrea Angius is currently working for Zaha Hadid Architects. He holds a degree in Architecture and a PhD in Building Technology from the Politecnico of Milan and a MArch in Architecture and Urbanism from the AA. Since 2009 he has been teaching at the University of Pennsylvannia Visiting Design Studio.
Ana Araujo
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 2
Bio: Ana Araujo practices as a designer, tutor and researcher. She works at the crossover between spatial and textile design, having published and exhibited internationally (Australia, Brazil, Germany, Holland, UK). She is a co-founder of Atelier Domino, a London-based studio committed to the realisation of hand-crafted art and design.
Manuel Collado Arpia
Unit/Programme:Intermediate Unit 11
Bio: Manuel Collado Arpia & Nacho Martín Asunción are founders of the Madridbased office Mi5 Architects. They have won and built several competitions and their work has been recognised, awarded and published in a wide range of media such as Dezeen, Archdaily, Icon, and El País. Since 2003, they have taught at various institutions such as the Architectural Polytechnic Universities, UAH Madrid, UA Alicante and UCJC Madrid, the Architectural Association Summer School and Fashion Design at IED Madrid. Additionally they have participated in several juries, lectures and exhibitions such as at the Venice Biennale, RIBA London and IVAM Valencia, among others. They are both currently completing their PhD dissertations at ETSAM Madrid.